Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

[Lennart Borgman]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> I'm sure my usage pattern is very different from yours (I never print
> from inside Emacs, for example), but I don't have any trouble "getting
> Emacs into a working condition on w32". There are some rough edges.
> Which Is Not The Same Thing :)

Yes, my fingers are probably different too. I am used to cua keys, 
alt-tab, alt-f etc. (And I am rather used to vi.)

And printing the code is sometimes necessary for me. While I am coding 
everything is very abstract and actually have to look at the code 
afterwards ;-)

> There are not many Windows developers for Emacs, so resources are
> scarce. That does not mean they don't care.

Yes, I know, I have understood this now. But it was quite a bit 
frustrating in the beginning. I would welcome more developers on the w32 
side!

> I've always tried to take your patches seriously; I'm sure I'm not the 
> only one.

Thanks! I guess we differ more in how we see the needs and 
possibilities. Perhaps I more often restructure code to get benefits. 
Restructure and bind together (like for my printing solution/hack ;-)

> If they're not final, and we are in pretest (or we were approaching
> pretest) its harder to give them the attention they need. It will be
> easier to reconsider them after 22.1, IMHO.

Depends on if they are bug solutions or not IMHO. I send the suggestions 
to the list to see if we together can see flaws/benefits/better ways. It 
is quicker than doing it all yourself just to find you have to redo it 
which happen to me quite a number of times since I always see more of 
the benefits than the problems ;-)

> I have not heard many people complaining that they cannot remap Win +
> R, for example. I looked once to your low-level code, and it seemed
> complicate for the small benefit it offers (IMHO again, of course).

Some people give up. Unfortunately.